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Let me tell you what we experienced.... CCC has a horrible, horrible nursing program Except Malcolm X. Make sure that the nursing program is NLN accrediated. That matters alot. Otherwise, you get the ghetto like teaching methodology like we did. OHC nursing program did nothing for us but waste our money and time. It was a terrible, terrible, horrifying experience. Don't Do It !!!!!!!!!!! If the program is not NLN accrediated, you will have a difficult time getting hired at University Hospitals. Thats what I have been told anyway. Go to a four year program instead. If you go to OHC you will be there the same amount of time anyway, but without the BSN degree. :lol2: OHC the instructors did not want to teach, no nursing resources available to its students- why? No body there. They charge you 450.00 per course for lab fees and the kicker is you don't get to use the lab. Why? Teachers don't have the time. Computer lab closed 80% of the time. Why? No body there. Computer too slow, printer not working, videos too old. Way too many things wrong with that program. The Chicago District office should be ashamed!!! No wonder they are not NLN accrediated. What a big mess!

City Colleges of Chicago - OLIVE HARVEY. We had to score 870 or higher. We get three chances, but that was never stated in our handbook. For a fee we had to pay the school a 6 week pass/fail remediation course with our nursing instructors. We all passed the exams that our nursing instructors gave us. BUT......... when we took HESI again........90% of us failed. Now we have no nursing degree. We spent three - four years and over $30,000 and we have nothing. WHO is at FAULT???

I agree. For a fee we had to have a 6 week pass/fail remediation course with our nursing instructors in order to take HESI one more time - we all passed. BUT............ when we took HESI 90% of us failed!!!!!!!!! So who is at fault the students or the faculty??????????? NOW WE HAVE NO NURSING DEGREE. Four years, $30.000 spent on education, a professional picture of me in my nurse uniform and cap, memories of walking on stage with my caps, gowns, and my families there to witness my special event. HESI was not even mentioned in our student hand book, or the consequences that was involved.

Is anyone attending or have graduated from any one of the city colleges of chicago?????

Is that correct? Because our school which is one of the city colleges of chicago is sooooo bad. We had 40 plus student finished the program and only 13 passed the Hesi exam. This school is all political, in my opinion the city colleges of chicago is so disorganized and do not care about their students. When you have over 50 students complaining about the same thing - lack of faculty support, subjective policies, non functional equipment, no tutors, and resources center closed 90% of the time and a teacher being terminated for shredding students scantrons and changing their grades, racial comments than something is wrong. When you have 30 plus students testifying in court about the damages that were done to them and preventing the students from graduating on time, than something is wrong. When the school favors students over other students by allowing some students to take an Exit exam four, five and six times and other students to take only 2 or three times with forcing them to sign a contract than something is wrong with the program. When you spend three years sacrificing, studying hard, spending lots of monies on your education and end up were we are than something is wrong.

Hesi was created as a Diagnostic tool for nursing students to determine their areas of weakness. Most schools are using it as an exit exam and prevent the students nurses from obtaining there earned degree and sitting for the State Boards. Areas of weakness should have been addressed with these students from the beginning and end of the school by the nursing faculty. Instead they wait until you have passed all of your courses and than have your areas of weakness be addressed. They than add the scare tactic of repeating second year if there is availability in the second year if you fail Hesi. Ask the nursing faculty why they didn't know where their students areas of weaknesses were? Obviously this is a State Wide problem and it should be addressed State Wide. NCLEX does not mandate Hesi to be taken only your school does. There are many student nurses out there who cannot find a job because now they don't have a degree based on failing Hesi. After completing three or four years of college they have nothing to show for it. Do you remember waking up 4-5 in the morning for clinicals, staying up until 3 am to study. How about the 6-10 chapters a week with the weekly exam. All that sacrifice - gone! We need to address this issue. For those students nurses who did pass Hesi and now RNs' should still advocate this issue. It is not fair. So many have stated that Hesi and Nclex are not the same. Other schools who use it as just a diagnostic tool have said they bombed Hesi but breezed thru NCLEX. Get the attorney it is worth it, we can make it a state wide issue, we have. As nurses we need to advocate what is right.

That is fine if the school made you aware of the Hesi exam during your orientation. Unfortunately, our school revised our policy and inserted HESI when we were in our second year. Now, we have to sign a contract that if we don't pass we repeat second year or be placed for an LPN program. One classmate failed HESI and she was working as a Nurse tech, the hospital terminated her for not passing HESI two months after that she lost her house and she has two little girls. Another student is living in a van trying to find a job because no one would hire her, after failing HESI. Does this matter to anyone? And both individual are competent and have excellent work ethics, which is an upmost important character for a nurse. Is it our fault that our school did not prepare us for this type of exam. I hear from everyone who has taken Hesi and NCLEX that neither test are the same, that NCLEX is placed in simplier terms. Therefore, for three years of sacrifice we receive nothing. We are seeing our classmates become homeless and there is no one to help them.

My concern about Hesi is that it is only suppose to be used as a diagnostic tool to identify your area of weakness. Unfortunately most schools are using it as an exit exam, do you know that if our colleagues do not pass the Hesi exam they must repeat second year over again? It is used as an exit exam so the school can advertise that they have 99% NCLEX passing rate and with that high percentage the colleges receive grants, and funding. It is all about the money. Instead of assisting the students with their weakness they mandate that if you fail you repeat second year. If Hesi is a good identifier for areas of weakness why is it that you passed the nursing course? It should be State Board that decides whether you are competent as a nurse not your school. Also, did you know that most colleges like ours is witholding our diploma until we pass Hesi. Is this constitutional? Did we not earned this degree? Did you know that the foreign nurses does not have to take their CGFNS before taking state board, they can no just take state board? I wish someone would take a stand. This is so unfair. Is there anyone out there who cares anymore????

Has anyone taken the Dr. Martin Review before taking Hesi?? What other tools has anyone used to pass Hesi? Thanks from your colleagues!!

I will be taking Hesi for the second time in a month, should I sign up for the Dr. Martin review?? What have you heard about it??? Did the saunders disk help you?? Thanks

My beef with taking the Hesi exam is that their questions are absolutely out from the left field. No even close to the Nclex exam. Most of all my colleagues if they do not pass the Hesi exam at 87% after the second time they will need to repeat second year over again --- yes the entire second year. Can you believe the nightmare, if that doesn't get you I don't know what will. Our class did not even have the appropriate nursing instructors teach us, I mean one quit after three weeks of beginning semester the other one couldn't answer 80% of our questions and gave exams without lectures telling us we are adult learners and we should be self taught. Our school is a joke!! No wonder only 10% of our students pass.

Has anyone purchased the Mo-media.com software? I was wondering if it worked for anyone in regards to passing Hesi and or Nclex. Let me know Since we were unsuccessful we were told we could not attend our graduation pinning ceremony. Alot of us have families flying in from out of state and this has been devastating, alongside with the job opportunities we had. I don't feel it is appropriate to take the Hesi exam based on the idea that if you don't pass it you cannot attend your graduation and cannot take the Ncelx exam nor even be hired as licensed pending RN. We sacrificied and worked extremely hard, and basically neglected our famillies for three years and we graduated. We should be able to take the state board now. It feels like we have to take two state boards with this Hesi exam. The Hesi exam is nothing like the NCLEX exam. I do over 200 nclex questions a day more on some days. The Hesi exam questions completely different from Nclex.and there software does not contain enough questions for you to practice on and I have already outdone the questions that it won't let me do anymore questions. So if there is anyone who can help us with this please let me know.

Can anyone help me with titration problems??? Do you know of any website that can also. I really want to excel it titration but I get confused towards the end of the step, my mind goes blank. Here is a problem sample; Give lidocaine 30 mcg/kg/min to a child weighing 55 lbs. the drug available is 120 mg/100 ml of fluid. How many mcg/min will be given? Mcg/hr? and what will be the infusion pump rate? Another one I blank on is not a titration but what I call "What" question. Here is a example. Medication "X" 40mg IM. the patient's medication tray contains two single does vial of 15 mg and one signle dose vial of 30 mg. what vial or combination of vials are needed to be used for this initial dose. Also identify the vial(s) that is needed and the number of mls' needed from each vial(s). than indicate how much mls' in the syringe? - "What?":madface: Help!

Can Anyway Please Assist me - I will be taking my Hesi Exam in June. Does anyone have any advice on how to prepare for this exam? Books, websites, test taking strategies???? Please help a fellow NurseWannabe

My instructor yelled at me at a psychiatric unit stating that my medications were late, I stated to her that I had trouble looking for the appropriate size b/p cuff for my obese client. I had to go to two units to look for one. I was suppose to give the client his meds at 10am and it was 10:20am. She stated I show no concern for the client and I am jeopardizing her license. I felt it was my duty to be accurate in taking his b/p by using the appropriate size cuff. Thank goodness I did, because it turned out I had to withold his b/p meds. She stated to me I can take a b/p without a b/p cuff. I did not know this or how to. In turn she wrote me up? Is this really considered a medication error? Was it appropriate for her to yell at me in front of my psych. patient? What would you do?